Rafael wrote: > Jason Crosse wrote: >> On 18/02/2008 16:09, Rick Faircloth wrote: >> >>> I've realized at the start of a pretty large site, including >>> Internet and Intranet sections, that my stylesheet could grow >>> very large and even finding sections of styles for particular >>> pages could be a cumbersome task. >>> >>> What I'm considering is having one main stylesheet, then >>> having supplemental stylesheet for the various pages I will create. >>> E.g., for a particular page, I would have main.css, plus index.css. >>> For announcements, I would have main.css, plus announcements.css. >>> >>> I would be avoiding loading a lot of irrelevant styles for a particular >>> page and make finding style references much easier, too. >>> >> You could take the modular approach. Instead of creating stylesheets >> for individual pages, you could, for example have >> >> * common.css >> * web.css >> * intranet.css >> >> Having individual style files for individual pages seems worse than >> embedding styles in the head of a document. It seems to me you've >> got all the disadvantages plus extra calls to the server. >> > This may be a slightly off-topic thread, but in the meanwhile... > If you are concerned about performance you should combine > everything, even more if you have a server-side language at your > disposition. So what I mean is a little bit more of a complex solution... > > Having separate style sheets usually helps to keep everything > organized (depending on how you build them), but it also gives you more > connections to the server. So what you can do is to make use of that > server-side language you have, just make sure to send the appropriate > HTTP headers. I.e: > In the (x)HTML page: > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" > href="css.dynamic.xxx/common/web" /> > In css.dynamic.xxx, something like > - split path-info by '/' > - check by matching against the available files > - send headers and embed all the files into one
I personally don't like this idea. You have no benefit from caching and might as well include all those styles in an inline <style> tag. I think styles for each page is inherently bad, your styles across the site should be consistent, therefore you shouldn't /need/ a large amount of specific styles for pages. Regards, Chris ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
